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“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines. The”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There’s something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.”
― 2010: Odyssey Two
― 2010: Odyssey Two
“But we’ve got this guy, Sam Taylor, who used to work with ZZ Top.’ So, they sent Sam over to a rehearsal, and Sam said to us, ‘You guys are pretty good.’ He seemed not too impressed, but he was willing to work with us, and then he went home. His ex-wife later told me he thought he had found the greatest thing in the world—that he might have found ‘the next Beatles’ and they were going to get rich. [Laughs] But he didn’t tell us that.”
― King's X: The Oral History
― King's X: The Oral History
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science, Science fiction, and Thriller
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